1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judg. v. 25. 2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious
dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak.
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Home-home dishes that drive one from home.
Hood. 3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b)
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
Dish
(Dish), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.]
1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
To dish out.
1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in
stone or wood. — To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served
at table.
Dishabilitate
(Dis`ha*bil"i*tate) v. t. [Cf. Disability.] To disqualify. [R.]
Dishabille
(Dis`ha*bille") n. [See Deshabille.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in dishabille.
Smollett. Dishabit
(Dis*hab"it) v. t. [Pref. dis- + habit to inhabit.] To dislodge. [Obs.]
Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime
Had been dishabited.
Shak. Dishabited
(Dis*hab"it*ed), p. a. Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
Dishabituate
(Dis`ha*bit"u*ate) v. t. To render unaccustomed.
Dishable
(Dis*ha"ble) v. t.
1. To disable. [Obs.]
2. To disparage. [Obs.]
She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite.
Spenser. Dishallow
(Dis*hal"low) v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson.
Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.
T. Adams. Disharmonious
(Dis`har*mo"ni*ous) a. Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.
